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William Dunlap

Volume: 2 Publisher: New York, Collins, Keese Publication date: 1837 Subjects: New York (State) -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 New York (State) -- History Revolution, 1775-1783 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

Stamperia del Chracas, Stefano Zucchino Stefani

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Ewart R. Oakeshott

Oakeshott's multivolume study of medieval knights continues with this 1962 volume. The gallant knight clad in armor upon his charging steed is an image we all know from literature and film, but Oakeshott eschews the romance of jousts in favor of the facts behind them, their rules, and the equipment used. This update adds a 13-page glossary. Both adults and children will find this of interest.

James Stephens

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Люси Летбридж

The Golden Age of Piracy, The Capture of the Bird Galley, Long Ben, the Arch-Pirate, The Count of Ericeira's Diamon, Into the Pirate's Lair, The Pirate who Drank Tea, Captain Kidd: the Reluctant Pir, Two Hell-cats, Marooned, A Spanish Novelist Escapes the Corsairs, The Conquest of the Quakers, The Saint who Survived Slavery, Mrs. Ching, the Terror of the South Chin Seas, The Black Joke, Sir Henry Morgan, the King's Pirate, Notes/Комментарий, Vocabulary/Словарь

Триста лет тому назад пираты господствовали на морях и океанах, нападая на торговые суда. Завладевая их богатствами, самые удачливые из пиратов становились богачами и жили, не отказывая себе ни в чем. Однако жизнь морского разбойника была короткой и полной лишений. В историях, собранных в этой книге, рассказывается о судьбах самых известных главарей пиратов, о творимых ими жестокостях, а также о решимости людей, поставивших перед собой цель - поймать этих разбойников. Издание на английском языке.

Bernhard Rieger

An examination of the obsession for new technology in Britain and Germany between 1890 and 1945. It explains how Germans and Britons nurtured a fascination for aviation, glamorous passenger liners and film as they lived through profound social transformations and two wars.

D. Brendan Nagle

For courses in Ancient History (Ancient Near East - Egypt/Mesopotamia), Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome. The Ancient World is a comprehensive, multi-perspective, and integrated chronicle of the history of the ancient world, from Sumer to the fall of Rome, that explores the distinctive forms society took--particularly the unusual (by the standards of college students today) relationships between society and the state that characterized the social order of antiquity. By closely integrating social and cultural histories with the political, institutional, and military climates in which they unfolded, this text provides fascinating insights into family, gender relations, class structures, public vs. private realms, slavery, popular culture, religion, art, architecture, leisure styles, philosophy, science, and education, and explores their complex relationships to ideology and political events.

Barbara Mertz

Internationally renowned Egyptologist Barbara Mertz transports us back thousands of years and immerses us in the sights and sounds of day-to-day life in a vanished desert culture. Their civilization has inspired myriad films, books, pieces of art, myths, and dreams, and they built grand monuments that still stagger the imagination five thousand years later. But who were these people? Mertz ushers us into their homes, workplaces, temples, and palaces to give us an intimate view of the everyday worlds of royals and commoners alike. Displaying the unparalleled descriptive power, unerring eye for detail, keen insight, and trenchant wit that have made the novels she writes (as Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels) perennial New York Times best-sellers, Barbara Mertz brings a buried civilization to vivid life, taking us closer than ever before to the people of a great lost culture so different from—yet so surprisingly similar to—our own.

Harald Thorsrud

Scepticism, a philosophical tradition that casts doubt on our ability to gain knowledge of the world and suggests suspending judgment in the face of uncertainty, has been influential since its beginnings in ancient Greece. Harald Thorsrud provides an engaging, rigorous introduction to the central themes, arguments, and general concerns of ancient Scepticism, from its beginnings with Pyrrho of Elis (ca. 360 B.C. -ca. 270 B.C.) to the writings of Sextus Empiricus in the second century A.D. Thorsrud explores the differences among Sceptics and examines in particular the separation of the Scepticism of Pyrrho from its later form--Academic Scepticism--the result of its ideas being introduced into Plato's Academy in the third century B.C. Steering an even course through the many differences of scholarly opinion surrounding Scepticism, the book also provides a balanced appraisal of the philosophy's enduring significance by showing why it remains so interesting and how ancient interpretations...

Merle W. Mc Morrow

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